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Do you nap?
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I tend not to nap because it takes me ages to get to sleep anyway. Just occasionally, if I've had a really bad night or two I'll inadvertently nod off for a while and then feel better.
If I'm going on a longish journey I tend to nod off in the car if someone else is driving.
If I'm going on a longish journey I tend to nod off in the car if someone else is driving.
My current sleep pattern is-
Bed at 4am
Wake up at 10-11am
Don't eat till around 2pm
Work until tea at 6pm
Usually nap around 7-8pm for an hour
Work and play until bed at 4am!
Throw in random dog walks depending on when she wants to go out and random friend visits.
During the middle of Winter and Summer I usually have a nap. Haven't had one today though!
Bed at 4am
Wake up at 10-11am
Don't eat till around 2pm
Work until tea at 6pm
Usually nap around 7-8pm for an hour
Work and play until bed at 4am!
Throw in random dog walks depending on when she wants to go out and random friend visits.
During the middle of Winter and Summer I usually have a nap. Haven't had one today though!
I take a nap a few times a week...depends on how well I sleep through the night. Sometimes if I'm watching TV my eyes will just close for about 20 minutes and then I feel great after.
I can't take a nap during the day because I won't sleep at night... I definitively need to be tired to sleep. I dropped naps such a long time ago that I can't remember the last day I took a nap.
Even during those long days at school... no nap for me.
Even during those long days at school... no nap for me.
I love weekend naps, but avoid them if I sleep until 8 or so. During school I get up at 5 a.m., go to work at 6:15, get home at 4ish. I sometimes take a short nap in the afternoon. It's a long day on your feet!
Nope. I've tried, totally screws me up. If I'm tired then I read or listen to music for a bit. But I never actually nap, unless I'm sick.
According to my mom, I never took naps, even when I was a baby.
According to my mom, I never took naps, even when I was a baby.
i nap occasionally and when/if needed. no set schedule or anything but they can certainly be a good thing
I only tend to take naps when i'm exhausted which more often than not is only when i'm home sick. On the rare weekend when I go out and exercise than i'll usually take a quick nap (30-45 minutes). Sometimes I try to take a nap at work, but my car isn't very comfortable and there's a lot of foot traffic near our building.
I'm the same way...it actually makes me more tired if I take a nap, cause I feel like I need to keep sleeping...
I nap when I've had a poor sleep or have been working harder than normal, only really in the window 3pm-5pm normally for 2 minutes. Feel great afterwards.
I always sleep in cars. Ever since I was a baby we always went on long car rides into Europe, I only stopped going when I was 16 or so so I've built up a little technique to make the journey shorter - if I lie back and put my knees up against the seat in front so they're about level with my head then I'll drop off to sleep in about 10-15 minutes. Sleep for hours doing that. YMMV
I always sleep in cars. Ever since I was a baby we always went on long car rides into Europe, I only stopped going when I was 16 or so so I've built up a little technique to make the journey shorter - if I lie back and put my knees up against the seat in front so they're about level with my head then I'll drop off to sleep in about 10-15 minutes. Sleep for hours doing that. YMMV
man i wished i could have done that
personally i first learned sleeping in a car during my army where the benches in the trucks were installed length wise ... combined with little light, vibrating engine and generally not a talkative mood i could doze of within minutes ... my record was sleeping before leaving the gate
too bad i learned that too good and always doze away in public buses and miss my station
too bad i learned that too good and always doze away in public buses and miss my station
Haha! I only started falling asleep on buses recently compared to how long I've been doing it in cars. Just put a nice Tangerine Dream album on my iPod and have a little doze, thankfully my bus rides are terminal to terminal so I don't miss the stop.
Can't sleep on trains mind. Only just started using them and they feel so "new" to me
, well, cross country trains.
i try very hard not to nap. napping almost always guarantees me a late night, and i don't need any more of those than i already have.
I barely even need a pillow to fall asleep in the car! (although without a pillow, car-sleeping is not enjoyable.) Ever since I was a baby, we'd drive from NC to Wisconsin (which is a "16 hour trip" by car, but we made it in about 13 or 14) and I usually just slept the whole way there. I find it very relaxing to sleep in a car.
But the best naps are taken (a) at a beach villa with my best friend during the day (b) on the couch with my boyfriend at his dad's house
nothing like sleeping when you know you have nothing else to do, or when you're with your love 
It took me forever to fall asleep last night, so as I was trying, I was thinking, "Tomorrow is definitely going to be a nap day." I awake to find this thread. That solidifies it. Today is DEFINITELY going to be a nap day.
Must be something about the motion, rocking us off to sleep. I'll just skip along on the surface of sleep, have a look at where we are, doze, find we're a bit further, more dozing etc.
I quite regularly drive for three hours in one direction, stop for a couple of hours and then drive home again and that during that second stint I'm sometimes a bit sleepy and have to stop for a while and have a coffee or a coke or something. Won't drive when I feel like that.
I quite regularly drive for three hours in one direction, stop for a couple of hours and then drive home again and that during that second stint I'm sometimes a bit sleepy and have to stop for a while and have a coffee or a coke or something. Won't drive when I feel like that.
I'm sort of perma-sleep deprived and one major symptom is being able to fall asleep just about anywhere or any time.
But I <3 the car nappage.
And I <3 naps. Used to nap a lot more, but lately I haven't at all. Still doesn't stop me from waking up silly early.
But I <3 the car nappage.
And I <3 naps. Used to nap a lot more, but lately I haven't at all. Still doesn't stop me from waking up silly early.
Still doesn't stop me from waking up silly early.
it is silly early. but we all have our waking times.